Element

Earth

body and substance

Signs Taurus, Virgo, CapricornComplements Water

The nature of Earth

What Earth animals share

Earth animals hold, build, and endure. Their work is knowing when to let a settled thing change. Left unchecked, Earth turns steadiness into inertia.

The animals

Every Earth Zodi Animal

These are the crossings whose Western sign carries the Earth element.

Taurus

Aardwolf Giant Clam Sable Antelope Koala Galápagos Tortoise Pangolin Moose Snow Petrel Ringtail Superb Bird of Paradise Banded Mongoose Bongo

Virgo

Leafcutter Ant Beaver Dragonfly Penduline Tit Archerfish Trapdoor Spider Avocet Clark's Nutcracker New Caledonian Crow Weaverbird Cleaner Wrasse Star-nosed Mole

Capricorn

Marbled Polecat Shoebill Steller's Sea Eagle Mountain Pygmy Possum Bearded Vulture Tuatara Siberian Crane Hercules Beetle Snowy Owl Andean Condor Tibetan Blue Bear Giant Armadillo

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